begin
Nouns
- (n) Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992) Menachem Begin,
Verbs
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(v) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- We began working at dawn
- Who will start?
- Get working as soon as the sun rises!
- The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
- He began early in the day
- Let's get down to work now
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(v) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- The DMZ begins right over the hill
- The second movement begins after the Allegro
- Prices for these homes start at $250,000
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(v) set in motion, cause to start
- The U.S. started a war in the Middle East
- The Iraqis began hostilities
- begin a new chapter in your life
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(v) begin to speak or say
- Now listen, friends," he began
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(v) be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
- The number "one" begins the sequence
- A terrible murder begins the novel
- The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester
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(v) have a beginning, of a temporal event
- WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland
- The company's Asia tour begins next month
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(v) have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- The novel begins with a murder
- My property begins with the three maple trees
- Her day begins with a workout
- The semester begins with a convocation ceremony
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(v) begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- begin a cigar
- She started the soup while it was still hot
- We started physics in 10th grade
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(v) achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
- This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation
- You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war
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(v) begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
- She began Russian at an early age
- We started French in fourth grade